The rhetoric of the article helps to develop the purpose of the text by making it very straightfoward, in order to teach people about the "Euthanasia' program. The informational text's rhetoric disregards the emotion behind the facts to further develop the purpose of the article. "The clinics were in reality killing wards where specially recruited medical staff murdered their young charges by lethal overdoses or by starvation" (Paragraph 2). No sugar coating, just reason, logic, and exposure. "Historians estimate that the “euthanasia” program, in all its phases, claimed the lives of 200,000 individuals" (Chapter 3). The rhetoric of logos (logic or reason in rhetoric) connects the euthanasia program to the presucution of Jews, the author also claims that former opressors in these mass murders became current oppressors in the Holocaust . The rhetoric of the article helps to develop the straightfoward non-fictional informational text to show the facts and connections behind the horrid 'Euthanasia' program.
